Four held with grenades, bullets in Shopian
Srinagar: Government forces recovered four grenades and 100 rounds of AK-47 from four persons arrested in Shopian district of South Kashmir, officials said. A police officer said that police and security forces arrested four persons including Imitiyaz Ahmad Dar of Ratnipora, Parvaiz Ahmad Kumar, Sajad Ahmad Dhobi, both residents of Pinjora and Shahid Manzoor of […]
Webinar on ‘women empowerment and gender sensitization’ held at KU
Srinagar: The Centre for Women’s Studies and Research, University of Kashmir in collaboration with University Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi, conducted a Webinar ‘Women Empowerment and Gender Sensitization’ on Wednesday. The webinar was conducted by the Centre in continuation of the recently commenced series of lectures and deliberations on varied gender related themes. The webinar […]
COVID-19 lockdown: Over 3 lakh stranded JK residents brought back
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has so far evacuated over three lakh residents of the union territory stranded in other parts of the country due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, according to official data. A total of 119 special trains arrived at Jammu and Udhampur railway stations from different parts of India with about 1,01,244 […]
Progress of works of sports facilities at Srinagar reviewed
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan took stock of progress of sports infrastructure development works at Multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall Polo Ground and Water Sports Center Nehru Park here Wednesday. During his visit to Multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall Polo Ground, Advisor Khan inspected various sections of the sports facility and had a firsthand stock […]
J&KERA Starts work on ‘Rigid Concrete Pavement’ of Civil secretariat –Rambagh road
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency Wednesday started work on Rs 9.16 crore “Rigid Concrete Pavement “of Civil –Secretariat to Rambagh Chowk road. The work on the sub-project being executed under World Bank funded JTFRP (Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project) was kick started in presence of Dr. Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, Chief Executive Officer, […]
Govt publishes B2V works, asks public to provide feedback
SRINAGAR: In a first, government of J&K published its work done under ‘Back to Village (B2V)’ programme. All the 1930 projects finished during the financial year 2019-20 have been showcased in an e-book recently released by the Finance department. The same has been done to bring in transparency and accountability in the expenditure-making by the […]
Blasphemy remarks: Multiple protests held across JK
Srinagar: Protest demonstrations were reported for the 2nd consecutive days in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday against a viral video in which a ‘fanatic’ has made incendiary remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). A complete shutdown was observed in Gool Gulabgarh area of Ramban district while peaceful protests were organized in different parts […]
Congress Panch resigns in Sopore
Sopore: A Congress Panch in north Kashmir’s Sopore area on Tuesday announced his resignation. The Panch identified as Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie son of Ghulam Rasool from Muqam Shaheed Mir village of Zaingeer in north Kashmir’s Sopore town resigned citing personal reasons. Talking to media Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie said that he has resigned as a Panch. […]
Passengers accuse public transporters of overcharging
Say they are flouting of SOPS amid Covid-19
Pulwama: The passengers from several areas of south and central Kashmir districts on Tuesday complained that the public and transport operators have been overcharging them besides not following the SOPs amid the Covid-19 pandemic. People who are visiting Srinagar on daily basis said that they are charged around double the money they were paying earlier […]
Govt puts all of the 10573 completed projects into public domain
Designates officers to receive public grievances/feedback
SRINAGAR: In a first to bring added transparency and accountability into public expenditure, the government has put all of the 10573 infrastructure projects completed during 2019-20 into public domain for registering public grievances and feedback as well. The Finance department has released a number of e-books depicting the pictorial images and all the relevant details […]